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How hard is a baby's skull at the soft spot?

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The fontanelle or "soft spot" at the front of a baby's head is where 4 bones join in the skull. It is not fragile, but also not the spot you truly want to expose to the elements. It's soft and vulnerable as there is no bone between your baby's brain and the outside world. There is tough tissue there to take the place of a skull while it grows.
When a baby transitions from infant to toddler and starts walking, the fontanelle area allows for the bones to shift and absorb impact upon a fall.
You'll sometimes see the soft spot pulse a bit as you watch blood flow around your baby's brain and skull when they are calm and resting. It's normal!

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What if a baby's soft spot hard?
Normally If a fontanelle is hard, baby has a temperature, loss of appetite, this isn't a great sign. The best thing to do is see a doctor. As it could be something quite serious.
What are the baby soft spots called?
Fontanelles
What is the soft spot on a baby?
its the spot at the top of an infants head were the skull is not completey hardenedThe fontanelle. A skull is composed of a number of plates that fuse together after birth. A newborn has close to 300...
What is the soft spot on baby's head?
The soft spots are known as fontanelles. There are two of them and they may vary in size a little bit. The one at the back of the head is usually smaller than the other and triangular in shape. This...
What is a babys soft spot called?
two "spots" generally combine to make up the larger spot. they are the posterior fontanel and the anterior fontanel